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lEleaser Ibamlin anb Ibis 
Bescenbants 

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By Myra Sawyer Hamlin 

BANGOR, MAINE 

PRIVATELY PRINTED 
1909 





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LIBRARY of CONGnESS 
Two CoDles Received 

FEB 5 1909 

Copyritnl tntiy 

COPY a. 



Copyright igoq 
By Alyra Sawyer Hamlin, Bangor, Maine. 



dforewotb* 



This little book, with its many omissions, does not aim 
to be comprehensive as to genealogy, biography or his- 
tory. While indebted to H. F. Andrews' Hamlin Family, 
to Charles E. Hamlin's Life and Times of Hannibal Ham- 
lin, to Dr. Cyrus Hamlin's My Life and Times, for many 
facts, the compiler of this sketch has designed only to 
trace the relationship of the families of the tribes of 
Eleazer most closely allied, and to set in a local back- 
ground a few of the most prominent ancestors of the 
present generation. The inspiration of the work is due 
to Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Hamlin of Boston, without 
whose cooperation it could not have been done by 

Myra Sawyer Hamlin. 




IFntrobuction* 

Honor thy father and thy mother that thy days may be 
long in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. 

'HE historian of the Hamlin family notes 
that the Hamlins were originally Teu- 
tonic tribes living along the banks of 
the river Elbe, the name Hamlin being 
derived from the old Saxon words Ham 
and Lyna, meaning home and pool. 
Since then the home is of intrinsic value to the Hamlins, 
as shown by having been carried in the name for many 
centuries, it has become the task of one of the tribe of 
Eleazer to gather and preserve some of the memorials 
of the homes in which many of their ancestors were born 
and reared and from which others went forth to perpet- 
uate the family traditions in wider fields. 

In this day of passing things it might seem a foolish 
task, but it is because this is a day of fleeting things that 
it has been judged wise to gather and hold the records 
of a few of the relics of some of the men of note for the 
benefit of the generation now growing up, out of knowl- 
edge of traditions, out of touch with the spirit of the 
past. 

It is only because our ancestors cherished their belong- 
ings that from generation to generation some prized arti- 
cles have been handed down from father to son, that in 



HAMLIN HOMES 

our modern homes it is the oldest chair, desk, chest, plate, 
cup or piece of silver that has the most value. 

The will of James\ 1683, bequeaths to his daughter 
Sarah " Two of my pewter plates which she shall chuse" 
and one to his son Isaac, "as each of my sons and daugh- 
ters as are now married have each had one." 

How precious would be these pewter plates to any one 
of the present generation! That each and every article 
of household furnishing had its sentimental as well as 
material value is shown by the notes in many another of 
these old wills. James^ bequeaths to his wife in addition 
to real estate and wearing apparel, his "cain," which 
"cain" she is to keep even though she marry again. 

Eleazer^, 1678, bequeaths to his heirs besides real estate, 
a definite list of household belongings which would look 
paltry to us today as a whole, but any one of which would 
be a priceless treasure as an heirloom. These pewter 
plates, silver spoons, linen sheets were probably long since 
buried in the sands of Cape Cod where the footprints of 
the Hamlins are still marked by town roads and farm 
sites bearing names carried by the ancestors of men whose 
homes are far distant from that early homestead. 

The American Hamlins are descended from the English 
branch of their race, whose origin is clearly proved by 
the old Norman and English Chronicles. The first au- 
thentic records of individual Hamlins were made by 
William the Conqueror in his Battle Abbey Roll. On this 
roll is inscribed the name Hamlin de Balon. The 
Doomesday Book records Hamlin or de Balon, sometimes 

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HAMLIN HOMES 

spoken of as Hamelinus. He was lord of the town 
of Balon, son of a Norman chieftain. Hamlin probably 
came to Cornwall at the time of the Earl of Montasne 
and there founded the family from which the American 
Hamlins are descended. Most of the descendants migrated 
to Devonshire and the main branch of the English family 
is chiefly identified with its history. They are today one 
of the representative families of Devonshire and it is due 
to their energy that the woolen business, the staple 
industry of the old country, still flourishes in the valley 
of the Dart. Visitors to the beautiful village of Clovelly 
always hear of the Lady Hamlin and her lovely Manor 
House which is one of the sights of the town. 

In 1260 Sir William Hamelyn was member of Parlia- 
ment from Totnes. Under Edward the Fourth William 
Hamelin was sheriff" of Leicester and Lincoln. James 
Hamlyn of Clovelly was created baronet in 1795. 

The pioneer Pilgrims who came to the continent in 
1620 were followed by a second group of English men 
and women who shared their convictions. They were 
mostly Cambridge graduates and held about the same 
social status as Cromwell, Hampden and Prynne. James 
Hamlin of Devonshire was one of this number. He was 
a son of Giles Hamlin of Devonshire, whose brother 
Thomas of London had the privilege of signing himself 
"Gentleman." 

James is the ancestor of a larger part of the Hamlin 
race in America, of which the number recently estimated 
by Andrews is about 20,000. A numerous progeny also 

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II A MUX HOMES 

sprung from Captain Giles, who settled in Middletown, 
who is supposed to have been a brother or close connec- 
tion of James. 

Cape Cod was a bleak and desolate place when James 
and his companions took up their life there. The 
country was flat and sandy and the soil hardly capable 
of cultivation, but after much toil they founded the town 
of Barnstable, of which James Hamlin was one of the 
incorporators. The land which he received was called 
Hamlin's Plains and his home remained standing for 
many years after his death. In 1690 James died full of 
years, leaving a good name and a large family, most of 
whom were born in Barnstable. Five sons are supposed 
to have survived their father, and it is said that each 
agreed to spell his name differently which is well borne 
out by the diversity of spelling the name in different 
branches of the race. They however continued to live 
an unbroken family a long time in and around Barn- 
stable, and in the history and chronicles of Cape Cod are 
spoken of as good citizens, church going and patriotic 
people. James, the second, son of the ancestor, was the 
father of ten children. His third son Eleazer, through 
whom the descent of interest to this book is preserved 
was in turn the father of seven children. It is probably 
his son Benjamin who maintained this line. His wife 
bore him eight children, the seventh of whom, Eleazer, 
was the grandfather of Hannibal Ilunilin, Vice President 
of the U. S. under Abraham Lincoln; of Cyrus Hamlin, 
Missionary to Turkey and founder of Robert College, 

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HAMLIN HOMES 

Constantinople; of Nathan Sumner Hamlin who was the 
grandfather of Charles S. Hamlin of Boston and his 
brothers Edward and George, grandfather also of Elijah 
Hamlin, in whose great granddaughter, Elinor Cutting 
Hamlin, daughter of Edward of Boston and Helen Ham- 
lin of Bangor are united two important branches of the 
main family tree of Eleazer, that of Asia and Cyrus. 




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Xine of 3£lea3er 

I. Eleazer Hamlin, b. 1732, d. 1807; m. Lydia Bonney of Pembroke. 

^ Children: 

1 Asia, b. 1753, d. 1780 \\->f 

2 Elizabeth, b. 1754 

3 Alice, b. 1756 

4 Africa, b. 1758 

5 Europe, b. 1759 

6 America, b. 1761 

7 Lydia, b. 1763 

8 Eleazer, b. 1765 

9 Mary, b. 1767 

10 Cyrus, | 

11 Hannibal, ) 

Married Sarah Bryant, born Lobdell. 
Children : 

12 Asia, b. 1774, d. 1778 

13 Sally, b. 1775 

14 Isaac, b. 1778 

15 Asia, b. 1780, m. Susan Read of Westford 

16 Green, b. 1782 

17 George, b. 1784 

Married Hannah Fletcher, of Westford ; no children. 



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lEleasev Ibamlin 

1bi6 IbomestcaDs at Pembroke, IbarvarD aiiD TKIlesttorD, 

/iRassacbusetts 




T is probable that Eleazer Hamlin was 
born at Eastham, but at an early age he 
struck out for himself and settled at 
Pembroke which was then a part of the 
Parish of East Bridgewater, in the rec- 
ords of which we find many deeds of 
property made to him. Though a dominating and sing- 
ularly individual race, the Hamlins have been more or 
less influenced by the maternal strain in all branches, 
and Lydia Bonney who bore Eleazer eleven children was 
no mediocre personage, nor was the widow Bryant who 
was his second wife and presented him with seven more. 
Both of these women came of good New England families 
in which could be traced many of the sterling qualities 
which have helped to distinguish the families of the sons 
and .^ughters which they bore. As Eleazer was a man 
of affkirs it is probable that much care fell upon his help- 
mates. 

• He is described as a large, powerful, energetic man, of 
kindly disposition, independent and original. This 
originality is nowhere more noteworthy than in the selec- 

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IIAMLLW HOMES 

tion of nHmes for liis family. The family records had 
been full of Biblical names, but he was a reader of his- 
tory and a great admirer of Scipio Africanus, and insisted 
upon naming one of his eldest sons for that Roman General. 
But as everybody called the boy Africa, Eleazer pursued 
a new line on the nomenclature so that the next three 
boys were America, Europe and Asia. Of Asia he was 
peculiarly fond, as the name was repeated twice again 
upon the death in childhood of the boys of that name. 

Returning to his love of generals, Cyrus and Hannibal 
followed. These sons were born in the town of Pembroke 
in the small one story and a half house which still stands 
and the records of the baptism of thirteen of the children 
in the chronicles of the second church in Pembroke show 
that but four of the children were born in Harvard, 
Mass. The house and church, of which we have photo- 
graphs, still remain, although both have been more or less 
remodelled in the century and a quarter since Major 
Eleazer removed to Harvard. The house is of a type 
fast passing away, as few remain and none are now built, 
yet in the days of its construction it best met the require- 
ments of the colonists in New England. The large cen- 
tral chimney with brick oven and open fire place from 
which hung the crane and spit is a distinctive feature of 
these old houses which have brought to the generations 
following many a piece of wrought iron or hammered 
brass. One pair of andirons from perhaps this very 
house found its way to Paris Hill with Dr. Cyrus the 
father of Hannibal, and a crane was at Watcrford in the 

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HAMLIN HOMES 

home of Cyrus the missionary, of remote ancestry which 
may or may not have hung in the fire place at Pembroke 
or Harvard. 

The journey from Pembroke to Harvard in the days 
of the revolution must have been a considerable task, and 
with his large family a great expense to Major Hamlin 
and the household goods must have suffered some scatter- 
ing in the transition. In 1777, having already served 
with distinction with General Durant around Cambridge 
and Lexington and receiving the title of Major, he re- 
moved to Harvard where he bought a farm of 128 acres 
including potash works in the town of Harvard on the 
road to Groton. This place had been one of the historic 
places of the town, having been owned by the family of 
Burrs. Rebecca Burr having married John Davis, the 
Burr homestead came to their son Aaron who sold it to 
Eleazer Hamlin. This was a much larger house and 
Major Hamlin made some additions to it, besides build- 
ing a large barn, both house and barn being still in exist- 
ence and owned by Lowell Sprague heirs of Harvard. 

These houses were not a full expression of those strong 
ambitious men of the time and it must not be judged 
that they expressed their ideals of what was beautiful and 
artistic or even comfortable. We of today must remem- 
ber that the New England colonists battled with a rigid 
climate, had limited facilities for building, stern require- 
ments of economy of fuel and service. Many of the fea- 
tures of the old houses, especially the long covered out- 
buildings so closely connected with the dwelling house, 

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HJMLIX HOMES 

were a concession to the severity of the climate, and an 
economy of labor for the men of the family who must do 
so much of the work of carrying fuel, caring for animals, 
drawing water, and the exigencies of farm life. If we 
can bring our minds to look back upon these homes in a 
spirit of loving admiration and respect, we cannot fail 
to wonder that from them came such men and women of 
refinement and cultivation and intellectual strength, able 
to rise above discomfort and material limitations and to 
accomplish so much which today, in our steam heated, 
electric lighted houses even, seems impossible to us. 

Eleazer Hamlin at Harvard took up the work of farm- 
ing and making potash, and was according to all the 
records of the town an influential citizen and of abundant 
means. He retired from the army before the close of the 
war to relieve his wife of the care of the increasing family 
and the farm, but four of his elder sons continued in 
service till the end. 

In the records of the town of Westford which later and 
permanently became his home, there is this statement: 
"This remarkable man had five sons who were educated 
at Harvard College and of his descendants not less than 
fifteen have had college educations." 

It has not been possible to verify this fully but it is 
well known that several of the sons had more than a 
common education. But it is borne out by tradition 
that Cyrus attended Harvard Medical Lectures, Asia was 
popularly called Judge Hamlin because of his uncommon 
knowledge and good education, not because of any 




Highboy, From Kleazer Hamlin's House in Westford. 



HAMLIN HOMES 

judicial dignity. Hannibal taught school in Maine and 
George went to Russia and entered the Army of the Czar 
and was an officer in the later Napoleon's Campaign. 

To these may have been given the Harvard education, 
but not to the sons who served in the revolution, Africa, 
America, Eleazer^ as these shortly after "went down to 
Maine" and made for themselves homes in the wilder- 
ness, on the tract of land which the Court of Massachu- 
setts had given Major Eleazer as reward for his services 
in the war. 

It was after the flight of the elder sons to Maine and 
possibly while the younger ones were at college that 
Major Hamlin married a third time Hannah Fletcher, a 
fine looking woman said to be the aunt of Grace Fletcher 
who married Daniel Webster. Mistress Fletcher owned 
a tavern on a farm in the town of Westford not a dozen 
miles from Harvard. Her farm and his own in Harvard 
made him one of the largest land owners in the State 
and he took up his residence in Westford. Asia who was 
born at Harvard, May 15, 1780 went with his father and 
lived in Westford in the homestead until his death. He 
was a fine judge of stock, fine sportsman and had a good 
education. He married Susan Read and there were 
seven children of whom Nathan Sumner was the head of 
the Massachusetts branch of Eleazer Hamlin's family. 

Eleazer Hamlin became as prominent in the aflkirs of 
Westford in the time of peace as he was in the affairs of 
Pembroke and Harvard in times of war and he was one 
of the founders and stockholders of the present public 

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HAMLIN HOMES 

library in Westford. The homestead which he occupied 
during his life is one of the pleasant places of Westford 
and is still occupied by one of the direct heirs of his line. 
His son Asia succeeded to its possession and later Cyrus, 
his grandson, resided there. At the present day it is occu- 
pied by the widow of his great grandson, Mrs. Charles A. 
Hamlin, born Elizabeth Kimball. With the passing of 
time and changes few of the old furnishings of the house 
remain but the handsome " Highboy" now in the posses- 
sion of Charles S. Hamlin of Boston, once had place in 
this home. It is probably of a period of about 1750, the 
overlapping drawers making it likely to be of the early 
date. It is a piece of very rare beauty and great value 
as an heirloom, marking a degree of distinction of living 
which probably surrounded the early ancestor in his 
Westford home. 

Eleazer Hamlin is buried by the side of his son Green 
in the east burying ground at Westford. His tombstone, 
a large, fine, slate slab of the fashion of a century ago, 
showing that it must have been erected at about tlie time 
of his death, bears the inscription, " Dec. 1, 1807, age. 
75 years, & 5 mos." His forceful personality lives in 
many of his descendants who today know not where he 
lived or died. 



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%inc of Bsia 

Asia Hamlin, b. 1780, married Susan Read of Westford. 

Children ; 

1 Nathan Sumner, b. 1806 

2 Susan, b. 1808, m. Pelatiah Fletcher— d. 1850 

3 Hannibal, b. 1814, d. 1814 

4 Cyrus, b. 1815 

5 Sarah D., b. 1820, m. Ira Richardson— d. 1844 

n. Cyrus Hamlin m. Dinah Cortelyou — d. 1889 

1 Sarah, b. 1844 

2 Catherine, b. 1847 

3 Henry, b. 1852 

4 Charles A., b. 1857, d. San Rafael, California, 1896 

HI. Charles A. Hamlin m. (1) Edith E. Walker of Burlington, 
Mass. (2) Elizabeth Kimball of Littleton, Mass. 

1 Gertrude, b. 1893 

2 Evelyn, b. 1895 



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C^ru8 IfDamlinarbeffir^t) 

Paris Ibill 

YRUS the first was the twin brother of 
Hannibal the first, and the name has 
already been repeated in succeeding gen- 
erations of the tribe of Eleazer thirteen 
times, while Hannibal is found in the 
genealogy by Andrews fifteen times. 
This Cyrus was the son of Eleazer and probably resem- 
bled his father more closely than any other of Eleazer's 
sons. He was of commanding size, standing six feet in 
height, and in his prime weighing over two hundred 
pounds. His cheeks were ruddy and his eyes a gray-blue, 
but his thick, heavy, jet black hair and bushy eyebrows 
gave to his massive head the general appearance of a 
dark toned man. This type has been repeated in several 
members of later generations, notably Elijah Hamlin and 
his son Augustus, as well as Edward Hamlin of Boston, 
followed the type of the early ancestor, Eleazer, rather 
than Hannibal and the members of his family, whose 
dark eyes were inherited from the Livermores. There is 
a tradition that the name of Cyrus must be accompanied 
by the degree of Doctor. This first Cyrus came as a phy- 
sician "down to Maine," not however to break his way 
throuo-h the wilderness like his brother Hannibal, but to 

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HAMLIN HOMES 

the township of Livermore, where Deacon Elijah Liver- 
more, from Waltham, Mass., had already founded a town. 
The young physician won the affection of the Deacon's 
daughter, with whom it is probable went some worldly 
goods to the home which was later the birthplace of Elijah 
and Hannibal, in Paris Hill. 

Deacon Livermore had a fine house in Waltham, Mass., 
where his daughter Anna married Dr. Cyrus, and in 1806 
the latter purchased in Paris Hill a tract of land " south 
of the County Common, twelve rods and twenty links in 
width between the common and the farm of Lemuel Jack- 
son, and extending from the county road on the east to 
the lot line on the west, thirty-one rods, also all the land 
west of the County Common and meeting house to within 
five rods of the northwest corner, containing seven acres." 

The Hamlin homestead at Paris Hill remains to this 
day, though one hundred years old, a dwelling house of 
the best New England model. High studded even for 
today, the rooms are large and square, and furnished with 
fine windows commanding the best views North and West 
and South and East, views unmatched anywhere else in 
New England and paralleled only by those of the adja- 
cent villages. The foothills of the White Mountains are 
discernible on the West; Streaked Mountain on the East, 
and on every side the peaceful valley of the Androscoggin 
with its orchards and well-kept New England farms envel- 
oped in a mountain haze that is like the atmosphere of a 
Corot in autumn. 

Dr. Cyrus built his house to live in, and from the open 

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Spanish Cabinet, Hannibal Hamlin's House. 



HAMLIN HOMES 

hospitality of the hall running through the house, to the 
cosy cheer of the library, well filled with books, there 
radiated a cheer and charm of culture and comfort little 
known to the wilds of Maine at that early day. Paris 
Hill was however in those days the shire town and emi- 
nent lawyers and judges, Parris, Emery, Rawson, gathered 
about the county buildings and shared in the hospitality 
dispensed by Mrs. Hamlin from her Strawberry Lowestoft 
china and her Sheraton sideboard. The Doctor's own 
library was augmented by Gov. Enoch Lincoln, who for 
many years made his home in the Hamlin house. Eight 
children were born to Dr. Cyrus and his wife Anna, in 
this house, of whom Elijah was the first and Hannibal 
the statesman the seventh. 

Hannibal, after his brother Elijah went to Brown Uni- 
versity, had lessons in practical farming from his elder 
brother Cyrus, who of a rare fine type died in early man- 
hood. It was Hannibal who planted some of the trees which 
today add to the beauty of the old place at Paris Hill. 

His sister Eliza also did much to beautify and improve 
the homestead when, after the death of her parents and 
the marriage of sisters and brothers, she was left alone to 
keep up the house. It was Eliza who opened the north 
parlor to the view of the White Hills by putting in a 
wide expanse of glass windows, and having it papered 
with the soft grey satin paper of which the artistic panels 
and garlands are of a mode of the present day. It is 
even now in a state of perfect preservation, although it is 
sixty years since it was done. 

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HAMLIN HOMES 

By the breaking up of this homestead in 1860, upon 
the death of Eliza, the sister of Hannibal, Vesta and 
Elijah, there was a scattering of household goods. It 
was less easy in those days to send furniture by freight 
or express; a few articles were sent to Bangor where both 
Elijah and Hannibal had homes, a few to Calais where 
Vesta, the elder sister, who had early married Dr. Holmes, 
and the rest remained in Paris Hill, where the choicest 
pieces have been carefully preserved in the family of the 
youngest daughter of Elijah, Mrs. Julia Carter. At the 
present time the fine old Sheraton sideboard and the 
Windsor chairs which Elijah took to Brown University 
(and unlike the college boys of today brought home 
again), are the possession of Mrs. Mary B. Carter, the 
widow of James Livermore Carter, grandson of Elijah 
Hamlin. So highly prized is this piece of furniture by 
Mrs. Carter that she has had an extension of her dining 
room built expressly for it and there it stands in the old- 
est house on Paris Hill, "full of honors and years," fitly 
placed and as proudly conscious as mahogany can be of 
the fact that it has remained in one town ever since 1806. 

The " Strawberry " Lowestoft china tea set, familiarly 
known by the family of Dr. Cyrus' heirs as "Grandmother 
Hamlin's Strawberry set," was for a generation also in 
the possession of the Carter family but was generously 
given a few years ago to Helen Hamlin, daughter of Dr. 
Augustus and first wife of Edward of Boston. 

The Grandfather's Clock which with its moon face tell- 
ing the tides, marked the time for the household at Paris 

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II A MUX HOMES 

Hill, is now in the home of Gen. Charles Hamlin in Ban- 
gor. The clock works are of brass and the case of a fine 
piece of curly birch and it was made by a well reputed 
clock maker of the 18th century, Burnham by name. 
The round inlaid Heppelwhite table, now in the home- 
stead of Hannibal Hamlin in Bangor, was at one time in 
the South parlor at Paris Hill. The brass knocker, oval, 
with beveled and beaded mountings, which has been for 
many years upon the front door of the house in Calais 
which is the homestead of the family of Mrs. Vesta 
Holmes, the elder sister of Hannibal, ushered many a 
caller to the cheerful rooms of the house at Paris Hill. 

Since I860 this fine old house has been owned by Mr. 
Chase of Paris Hill; adjacent to it is the unique building 
transformed by Dr. Augustus from the county jail into a 
library, a perpetual memorial of his family and name, 
and the town of Paris celebrates each year on Founders' 
Day this gracious act and keeps alive the memory of the 
old family by a fitting programme. 



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Clock from Paris Hill Homestead. 



%inc ot C^rus 

Dr. Cyrus, born at Pembroke 1769, died at Paris Hill 1829, married 
Anna Livermore, daughter of Elijah Livermore of Livermore, 
Me., and Waltham, Mass. 

Children : 

1 Elijah, b. 1800 

2 Cyrus, b. 1802, d. 1837 

3 Eliza, b. 1804 

4 Anna, b. 1805 

6 Vesta, b. 1808 

7 Hannibal, b. 1809 

8 Hannah, b. 1814 

n. Anna m. Daniel Brown. 

n. Vesta m. Dr. Job Holmes of Paris Hill, later settled in Calais. 

1 Agnes, b. 1837 

2 Anna Livermore, b. 1838 

3 Ellen Hamlin, b. 1840, m. Capt. Joseph Cony, lost at sea 1867 

4 Cyrus, b. 1842, d. 1842 

5 Frank, b. 1843, d. 1863 

6 Walter, b. 1854, d. 1898 ; m. Medora Piatt 
HI. Agnes m. Edward Moore of St. Stephens, N. B. 

1 Frank, b. 1868 

2 Josephine, b. 1870 

3 Vesta, b. 1877 



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Ibannibal IfDamlin i^bcmm) 

"HUaterforC* 

HIS Hannibal, the twin brother of Dr. 
Cyrus, settled in Waterford, Maine, some 
years before the coming of his brother to 
Paris Hill. His brother Africa had been 
one of the incorporators of the town. 
Hannibal was a school teacher and tradi- 
tion tells us that the money for his house at Waterford 
was earned by keeping school, although the land was 
part of a grant awarded by the General Court of Massa- 
chusetts to his father. Major Eleazer. It was certainly 
not thickly populated, for "his wife and little daughter 
' Nabby' were drawn on a moose sled from Long Pond to 
Bridgton or Harrison to their future home in the wilder- 
ness." A hide-bound chair was laid down and lashed to 
a sled upon which she was seated with her back to the 
chair, holding her child. When asked if she were home- 
sick she replied, "Not at all." It was a hardy, brave lot 
of men and women which settled the woods of Maine, 
and what a remarkable race descended from them! Han- 
nibal cut most of the logs from which the timber for his 
house was built, and the cosy, picturesque farm house, 
of the type of the house at Pembroke, still stands in the 
town of Waterford and it was the birthplace of Dr. Cyrus, 
now so well known the world over as the founder of Rob- 

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HAMLIN HOMES 

ert College, Constantinople. His farm was situated on 
the county road leading from Bridgton through Water- 
ford to Paris, the shire town of Oxford and the home of 
the brother of Dr. Cyrus first. 

In after years Dr. Cyrus (the missionary) took a jour- 
ney to Brousa, Asia Minor, which is situated at the base 
of Mt. Olympus, and wrote from there: " How vividly 
did my native home rush upon my mind with all its 
familiar objects and scenes, when on gaining one of the 
preliminary summits in our ascent we found ourselves on 
a level plateau with cragged summits around us. Here 
were mullein stalks, granite rocks, pine bushes, hemlocks, 
burdocks, birch trees, fine red thistles, genuine yellow- 
weed and green grass and running streams and a cold 
New England wind. I said to myself, 'A New England 
spring and my native home! ' New England wind! every- 
thing indeed breathes of home, sweet, half-forgotten 
home, just as it was in 1827. The matchless beauty of 
the Bosphorus becomes tame, almost nauseous, compared 
with the taste of home and its free, bracing air. We were 
actually in the climate of Maine, on the same geological 
formation which we have been accustomed to from infancy 
and there also are the very weeds and grasses of our old 
home." 

Many years later, on a visit to this old New England 
home Dr. Cyrus said, "My visit to Waterford affected me 
more than anything else." "I have a bracket made from 
the heart of a favorite apple tree, but nothing else from 
childhood's home but memories." Later, however, he 

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writes: "Since writing the above I have obtained the 
crane from the old chimney and I can sit down before it, 
placed on the wall of my study, and bring mother, Susan, 
Rebecca, Hannibal in front of it." 

Xine of Ibannibal of Materforb 

I. Hannibal of Waterford, b. 1769, d. 1811 ; m. Susannah Faulkner. 

Children : 

1 Susan, b. 1801, m. William M. Stone. 

2 Rebecca, b. 1805 

3 Hannibal, b. 1809 

4 Cyrus, b. 1811, missionary to Turkey 

n. Rebecca m. Charles Farley. 

1 Albert, b. 1834 

2 John Henry, b. 1837 

3 Cyrus Hamlin, b. 1839 

4 Susan, b. 1841 

5 Mary Louisa, b. 1844 

n. Hannibal, m. Abigail Abbot 

1 Abby Frances, b. 1837 

2 Cyrus, b. 1843 

HI. Abby Frances m. Rev. Lyman Abbott. 

1 Lawrence Frazer, b. 1859 

2 Harriet Frances, b. 1860 

3 Herbert Vaughan, b. 1865 

4 Ernest Hamlin, b. 1872 

5 Beatrice Vail, b. 1875 
HL Cyrus m. Lydia Sigourney. 

1 Winthrop Abbott 

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statesman 
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F Massachusetts ancestry, born at Paris 
Hill, Oxford County, Maine, the name 
of this illustrious Hamlin is perpetually 
associated with the banks of the Penob- 
scot, both Hampden and Bangor having 
equal claims^^upon his citizenship, his 
residence in the little village eight miles below Bangor 
having been of about the same duration as that in Ban- 
gor. The larger city perhaps has the stronger claim and 
the quiet joy and happiness of his declining years there, 
after the half century of public service, gives to the Ban- 
gor house the right to be called "the dearest spot on 
earth" for the children of this branch of the Hamlin 
family. 

It was in 1860 that Hannibal Hamlin gave up his 
house and farm in Hampden and bought the Hilliard 
property in Bangor. A singular and interesting feature 
of this purchase by Mr. Hamlin was the fact that most 
of the grounds that lay between the house and Hammond 
street could only be held in perpetual lease from the Ban- 
gor Theological Seminary, owing to the fact that that 
association is unable to dispose of any of its holdings. 
The house is surrounded by several acres of ground, a 

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large orchard and vegetable garden, while on the strip at 
the southeast is a well cultivated flower garden. At the 
time of the purchase of the Hilliard house it was covered 
with a flat roof, which, however, Mr. Hamlin changed to 
a mansard, thus adding several fine, airy chambers over- 
looking the city, and beyond to the Brewer hills. 

A portico and front veranda, supported by doric col- 
umns, gives to the house an external aspect of the colonial 
period, which is not wholly carried out by the internal 
arrangements. The front door on the north side of the 
house opens into a small vestibule which leads into a spa- 
cious hall from which a well curved flight of stairs ascends 
to the square chambers above. It is here necessary to 
note certain well-marked features of the finish of the 
house. Mr. Hilliard had designed it with some view to 
carrying out an effect of Italian architecture. The high, 
even lofty studding of the rooms, the arabesque stucco 
finish of the walls and the broad slanting jambs are 
almost classic and this finish, we believe, was introduced 
after the French Revolution from the Egyptian architec- 
ture into many buildings of France, England and Amer- 
ica. This broad wood finish, painted though it is in the 
drawing rooms and library a delicate, almost neutral tint 
and in the chambers a florentine white, give a certain 
dignity to the house which it might have lacked had the 
wood work been scantier or even more ornamented. In 
both drawing rooms there are black marble chimney 
pieces and open fireplaces with ball-headed brass fire 
irons. The windows reach from ceiling to floor and are 

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furnished with panelled shutters, replacing Venetian blinds 
of an earlier period. The doors, panelled and finished 
with grouving, have the special feature of solid glass 
knobs, so moulded that they often have the effect of 
prisms. The white turned banisters have a handsome 
mahogany rail, with a sunken newel post. 

The hall is furnished with a handsome mahogany table, 
above which is a good portrait of Mr. Hamlin, two an- 
tique Windsor chairs which were for many years in the 
office of his father, the doctor, at Paris Hill. A tall old- 
fashioned clock, also brought from Paris Hill, the works 
being of wood and not, as in the case of the other, of 
brass, fills one corner of this hall and at the right of this 
a fine old card table of mahogany stands, its open leaf 
spread with souvenirs of foreign travel and an interesting 
sitting statuette of Abraham Lincoln. The drawing rooms 
open at the left of the hall, the smaller, hardly more than 
a reception room, has yet almost the atmosphere of a 
sanctum sanctorum. A fine bust of the Vice President 
faces the door from the east corner, and opposite is the 
large chair which he occupied while Vice President. A 
good copy of the Gilbert Stuart portrait of Washington 
is a central picture on the walls of this room. Upon an 
oriental rug stands a Heppelwhite table which, like the 
Windsor chairs, was brought from the Paris Hill home- 
stead. 

The furnishings of the larger drawing room are of no 
particular period. Between the two large windows is a 
Spanish cabinet of chestnut, heavily covered with gold 

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leaf, bought in Spain by Mr. Hamlin when U. S. Minister 
at Madrid. This is made in the form of an escritoire, 
having small drawers and pigeon holes above a sliding 
leaf and a cabinet with doors below. It is handsomely 
columned, and exquisitely carved within, while the outer 
doors are scrolls of brass, mounted in red velvet. The 
heavy iron key of mediaeval pattern shows that its use in 
passed centuries had been an important one. Opposite 
this foreign possession is the senatorial chair Mr. Hamlin 
used when U. S. Senator for Maine. A grand piano fills 
a space against the east wall. Mrs. Hamlin is fond of 
music and flowers. 

Hannibal Hamlin's library was a large one, chiefly of 
history and biography and the books fill many large 
cases which are all over the house, — in the pleasant long 
parlors, in the sitting room where an old-fashioned cane 
seated chair sits always before the open fire, memorial 
of the simple, grand old man who occupied it so many 
years, and in the upper halls, from floor to ceiling are the 
bookcases with glass doors. 

The stairs have an artistic curve and old portraits meet 
the eye, of the father and mother of Mr. Hamlin, the 
father and mother of Mrs. Hamlin, Judge Emery and 
wife of Paris Hill. The high, sunny bedrooms are full 
of old furniture, most of it from Oxford County, from the 
home of the Emerys or Dr. Cyrus. The French sewing 
tables, the mahogany bureaus and bedsteads have a dig- 
nity which seems to declare them the right things in the 
right place. The beauty of the quiet street, with its arch- 

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HAMLIN HOMES 

ing elms making an avenue to the iron gateway where 
stands the sentinel oak tree planted by Mr. Hamlin him- 
self, the perfect order and system, united with beauty and 
charm of the garden, make this dignified old house a 
place to hallow a great name and to be honored by city, 
state and family. 



Xlne ot Ibannibal / 



1. Hannibal, born 1809, Paris Hill, d. 189^, Bangor. Married Sarah 
Emery of Paris Hill. Children : 

1 George, b. 1835, d. 1844 

2 Charles, b. 1837 

3 Cyrus, b. 1839 

4 Sarah, b. 1842 

Also married Ellen Vesta Emery of Paris Hill. 

5 Hannibal Emery, b. 1858 ; unmarried 

6 Frank, b. 1862 ; unmarried 

I. Charles, m. Sarah Purinton Thompson of Topsham, Me. 

1 Charles Eugene, b. 1861 

2 Addison, b. 1863 

3 Cyrus, b. 1869 

4 Edwin, b. 1872 

II. Charles Eugene m. Myra Louise Sawyer. 

1 Myra Louise, b. 1887 

2 A son, b. 1899, d. 1899 

II. Cyrus, M. D., m. Hattie Bennion 

1 Sarah Emery, b. 1902 

2 Hannibal, b. 1904 



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R. CYRUS, the second, was the son of 
Hannibal of Waterford, Maine, grand- 
son of Major Eleazer, and was born at 
Waterford, January the 5th, 1811, two 
years and a half later than his cousin 
Hannibal, the statesman, at Paris Hill. 
Graduated at Bowdoin College, went to Turkey for the 
American Board of Missions in 1837, founded Bebek 
Seminary, Constantinople, Turkey, and in 1863 Robert 
College. 

Probably no other Hamlin has ever been more versa- 
tile or had a more varied career than this second Cyrus, 
so well known to the world and especially to Turkey and 
Asia Minor, as Dr. Hamlin, the missionary. Left father- 
less very young, he worked on the farm at Waterford 
until it was proved that he was too slight and delicate 
for such work and was better fitted to other pursuits. 
They apprenticed him to his brother-in-law, Mr. Charles 
Farley of Portland, a watchmaker, to learn the trade of 
silversmith. After his conversion Mr. Farley let him off 
to complete his education and become a minister. At 
college, however, his tastes and talents were equally divi- 

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ded between the classics and the mechanical arts, his 
Bowdoin honors being equally divided between the model 
for a steam engine which he constructed, and a Latin ora- 
tion which he delivered. 

But after his college years Maine had little hold upon 
Dr. Cyrus, for the best part of his life was spent in Tur- 
key where he went in 1837, primarily in the office of 
missionary of the American Board. There, however, his- 
torical events and fortuitous circumstances combined to 
make his services to civilization and education of even 
greater value than those rendered to the Board of Mis- 
sions, and his skill in the mechanical arts gave him the 
title of "Wizard Hamlin" and the most "Satanic man in 
the Sultan's kingdom," those arts being judged by the 
Mohammedan as belonging especially to the Evil one. 
As the manager of bakery and laundry for the English 
army, Dr. Cyrus enlarged his field of action. Today his 
fame and influence lives in Robert College, which has 
become a university which unites the ideals of Christian- 
ity with the world broad education of the Western col- 
leges and is creating a new empire for the Sultan, with 
which he and the world will soon reckon. 

His Yankee ingenuity added much to the comfort of 
his Eastern home, for his spare hours were spent in recre- 
ating the various houses at Bebek in which he lived and 
where his ten children were born. 

From 1841-1843 his home was in the Demirgi Bashi's 
(which means Head of the Iron Works) house, where Dr. 
Hamlin's native ingenuity managed to make rooms for 

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several Armenian students and establish the nucleus of 
Bebek Seminary. But in 1843 the family removed to the 
great house of Cheleby Yorgaki overlooking the Bospho- 
rus which continued to be the home of the Hamlins and 
the Seminary until the founding of Robert College; for 
the Bebek Seminary was removed to Marsovan, Asia 
Minor, against Dr. Hamlin's judgment and without his 
approval. But he considered it a special providence that 
at this time came Mr. Robert's proposal that he should 
undertake the opening in Constantinople for young men 
of all nationalities. It was a great building affording 
space for forty-two boarders, with separate rooms for the 
family. A noble building, its frame work of massive oak 
with large and airy rooms, spacious halls, capable of ex- 
cellent uses by division of walls. But it was sadly out of 
repair from the standpoint of the New Englanders, and as 
money was short Dr. Hamlin labored a great deal with 
his hands, using tools which he manufactured himself or 
could obtain from English hardware merchants. 

Not content with making comfortable quarters for him- 
self and family, later he fitted up an industrial annex 
for his students, a workshop where, by work in sheet iron, 
stoves, ash pans and other useful but easily made articles, 
the poor students could obtain the means to clothe them- 
selves. 

It would seem that in such an Eastern home of so 
institutional a character there would be no place nor time 
for nursery life or social life, but the children were numer- 
ous and ever welcome, and the hour from nine to ten, one 

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or two evenings during the week, was given to tea drink- 
ing with the families of English and American friends, 
when the talk was of home and books and politics and 
war perhaps. 

This great house at Bebek, Constantinople, became the 
homestead of a Hamlin family whose roots were in Maine 
but many of whose branches still overlook the beautiful 
Bosphorus. 

Henrietta, the oldest daughter married Professor George 
Washburn, who became President of Robert College. 

Abby Frances married Prof. Charles Anderson of Rob- 
ert College and their daughter Catherine is her father's 
secretary and Sarah teacher at American College for Girls 
at Scutari. 

Clara, who married Rev. Lucius O. Lee, missionary in 
Marash, Asia Minor, was Associate Principal of the 
American Home School which became American College 
for Girls. 

But Dr. Cyrus returned to his native heath late in life 
and his declining years were spent in New England in a 
pleasant home at Lexington, Mass., with many of his large 
family about him. 

Alfred Dwight Foster, Professor of Architecture at 
Columbia College, his eldest son, his daughters Alice, 
Mary and Emma, and Christopher Robert, his youngest, 
who is settled at Randolph, Mass., and has four children, 
all of whom have made their homes in the United States. 



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Xtne ot C^rus, tbe /IlMssionari? 

I. The Rev. Dr. Cyrus of Constantinople, born Waterford, 1811, d. 
Portland, 1900 ; married Henrietta Jackson, 
Children : 

1 Henrietta, b. 1839 

2 Susan, b. 1842, d. 1858 

3 Caroline, b. 1845, d. 1887 

4 Abby Frances, b. 1847 

5 Mary Rebecca Foster 

Second wife, Martha Lovell. Children : 

6 Clara Harriet, b. 1853, d. 1902 

7 Alfred Dwight Foster, b. 1855 

Third wife, Mary E. Tenney. Children : 

8 Mary Ann Robert, b. 1862 

9 Emma, b. 1864 

10 William Maltby, b. 1866, d. 1871 

11 Alice Julia, b. 1867 

12 Henry Martyn, b. 1869, d. 1869 

13 Christopher Robert, b. 1870 

n. Henrietta m. Prof. George Washburn of Constantinople. 

1 George Hamlin Washburn, b. 1860 

2 William Maltby, b. 1862, d. same year 

3 Henry Howes, b. 1863, d. 1865 

II. Abby Frances m. Prof. Charles Anderson of Robert College. 

1 Robert, b. 1877 

2 Catharine, b. 1879 

3 Sarah, b. 1883 

4 Roger Hamlin, b. 1886 

n. Caroline m. Wm. H. Vail, M. D. 

1 Henrietta Loraine, b. 1873 

2 Marion, b. 1875, d. 1886 

3 Cyrus Hamlin, b. 1877 

4 Charles Edward, b. 1880 

5 Arthur Whitin, b. 1885, d. 1889 

II. Alfred Dwight Foster m. Minnie Marston of Hartford, Conn. 

1 Marston, b. 1887 

2 Talbot, b. 1889 

3 Clara Louise, b. 1895 

4 Genevieve, b. 1898 

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IRatban Sumner Ibamlin 

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ATHAN SUMNER was, like Hannibal 
the statesman and Cyrus the missionary, 
the grandson of Eleazer of Westford, his 
father, Asia, being uncle of these Maine 
men of note, so that while they were 
making careers in the new state which 
was but an offshoot of Massachusetts in 1820, Nathan 
remained, as it were, on the parent stem in Westford. 
Although there is no record of his having visited his 
Waterford uncles or his Bangor cousins, there is abun- 
dant evidence that communication was by no means cut 
off between the two branches of Eleazer's tribe, even at a 
time when communication by letter was difficult. 

It is a picturesque old town, this town of Westford in 
Middlesex county, a dozen miles from Lowell and about 
as far from the town of Harvard from which Eleazer had 
come, when he married the widow Fletcher. The Fletch- 
ers and Abbotts and Hamlins are still names to conjure 
with in the town of Westford where, from the beautiful 
common fringed with trees set out by Nathan Hamlin 
himself to the Fletcher library of which his grandfather 
was incorporator, and on through the quiet grass-bordered 
roads leading to the pleasant old-fashioned New England 

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homes where still live many of the name, the traditions of 
the Asia branch of Eleazer are kept and preserved with 
pride and affection. 

Nathan Sumner was a prominent Democrat, a member 
of the Massachusetts legislature and held town offices. 
Although a Democrat, he cast the deciding vote which 
sent Charles Sumner to the U. S. Senate. A Democrat 
was sure of election in his district, for which there were 
two Democratic candidates. The Free Soilers were wild 
to elect Sumner and promised to support Mr. Hamlin if 
he would vote for Sumner, to which he pledged himself; 
he was elected by the aid of the Free Soilers and redeemed 
his pledge. 

Nathan Hamlin married Harriet, daughter of Pelatiah 
and Sally Fletcher of Groton, and lived until his death 
in 1888 in the large two story house which is now occu- 
pied by the widow of his son Samuel A., so that another 
family home in Westford is still kept by one of the Ham- 
lin name. 

There was in this family a very decided bias towards 
political affairs and public interest as in the Maine fam- 
ily, and of Cyrus, the brother of Nathan, who resided in 
the old Eleazer homestead at Westford, it is recorded 
that he was an Abolitionist and Republican but voted for 
Greeley and Cleveland, showing an independence which 
has characterized many of the name. The daughter of 
this Cyrus of Westford has a record of usefulness; born 
in 1844, Sarah Dix Hamlin was one of the first women 
to enter Michigan University, class of 1873. She taught 

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school in San Francisco and was sent to India by the Am. 
Ramabai Asso, in 1891 to assist the Pundita Ramabai to 
establish her famous school for child widows, devoting fif- 
teen months to the work and then returned to San Francisco. 

Her sister Kate has also done much research work and 
contributed much genealogical matter to the Andrews 
book. The widow of their brother Charles resides at the 
Hamlin homestead. 

While there are Hamlin homes still at Westford, and 
Hamlin records and traditions, the chief representatives 
of the Asia branch through Nathan are now residents of 
Boston. Charles Sumner Hamlin, graduate of Harvard 
1883, Harvard Law School 1886, Assistant Secretary of 
the Treasury under President Cleveland, 1893, appointed 
by President McKinley member of the diplomatic body 
to make treaties with other nations for the protection of 
Alaskan seals, lecturer at Harvard Law School, promi- 
nent in Democratic party in Massachusetts, maintains the 
political reputation of a family strong in public affairs. 
Of his brothers, Edward, graduate of Harvard 1886, is 
President of Metropolitan Coal Co. and George, Treasurer 
of same. 

All have made their winter homes in Boston and their 
summer homes on Buzzard's Bay. Allied by marriage 
with Knickerbocker, Virginia and Boston families as well 
as linked again to Maine Hamlins, the Massachusetts 
branch has realized the ideals of the early ancestors in 
the individuality and beauty of their homes and the integ- 
rity and success of their business enterprises. 

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Xine of H^atban 

Nathan Sumner, son of Asia, born at Westford 1806, d. 1888. 
Married Harriet Fletcher. 

Children : 

1 Edward Sumner, b. 1830, d. 1888 

2 Samuel A., b. 1832, d. 1897 

II. Edward Sumner married Anna Gertrude Conroy of New York. 

1 Charles Sumner, b. 1861 

2 Edward, b. 1863 

3 Harriet, b. 1865 

4 George, b. 1867 

5 Fred, b. 1869 

6 Jane, b. 1871 

II. Samuel A., m. Abby Fletcher Tower. 

1 Edward A., b. 1857 

2 Gertrude Rebecca Fletcher, b. 1871, d. 1894 

III. Charles Sumner, m. Huybertie Lansing Pruyn, daughter of 
J. V. L. Pruyn and Anna Parker Pruyn of Albany. 
1 Anna, b. 1900 

III. Edward, m. (1) Helen, daughter of Augustus Choate Hamlin 
of Bangor. Child : Elinor Cutting, b. 1892 
Married (2) Katharine Brooke Conrad, daughter of Holmes 
Conrad and Georgia Bryan Forman Conrad of Winchester, 
Va. 

1 Helen, b. 1905 

2 Edward, b. 1906 

3 Katharine, b. 1908 

III. George Peabody, m. Mary F"arnsworth Tappan (daughter of 
Fred'k K. Tappan and Elizabeth Loring Meredith Tappan 
of Boston). 

1 George Peabody, b. 1906 

2 Robert Tappan, b. 1908 



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Elijab Ibamlin 

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HIS sketch would seem incomplete with- 
out some mention of Mt. Mica and its 
discoverer and explorer, Elijah Hamlin, 
who was not only the grandson of Elea- 
zer and the brother of Hannibal the 
statesman but bore the same relation to 
Elinor Cutting Hamlin of Boston as did his cousin Nathan 
Hamlin of Westford, both being her great grandfathers. 
Elijah Hamlin was perhaps the most fortunate of his 
generation, having been early sent away to receive his 
education at Brown University, — to see his Massachusetts 
relatives, and to get a broader view of life than that 
offered by the farm life of Paris Hill. After receiving 
his degree at Brown, Elijah studied law with Gov. Lincoln 
at Paris Hill where he made his home at the Hamlin 
homestead. 

As a student he roamed over the hills which surround- 
ed Paris, and with his brothers and Dr. Ezekiel Holmes 
discovered the mineralogical deposit of tourmalines and 
mica known now as "Mt. Mica," which in recent years 
has yielded so richly of the beautiful gems to Dr. Augus- 
tus Choate Hamlin, the son of Elijah Hamlin. 

Loving the homestead at Paris Hill, it was a disap- 
pointment to him late in life that it had not been kept in 

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the family, but the practice of his profession called him 
away from Oxford county and after a few years spent in 
Columbia Falls, Me., he entered upon the practice of law 
in Bangor, where he was a prominent citizen for many 
years. A striking looking man, of giant frame, piercing 
black eyes and shaggy eyebrows, his face was redeemed 
from sternness by a twinkle of humor in his eye and 
genial smile. 

Although of opposite political convictions from his 
brother Hannibal, he was active in the Legislature and 
civic affairs, but entered no wide political arena. As a 
student and lawyer and a man of cultivation he left a 
rich inheritance of culture to his son and a passion for 
Mt. Mica and Paris Hill. 

His granddaughter Helen Hamlin became the wife of 
Edward Hamlin and the mother of Elinor, who united 
two important Hamlin lines, both running back to Elea- 
zer, the Massachusetts Hamlins and the Maine Hamlins 
having one common ancestor and in this eldest daughter 
of Edward Hamlin, one descendant. 



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Xlne of Elijab 

Elijah Livermore, b. 1800, Paris Hill, died 1872, Bangor ; married 
Eliza Choate of Salem. 

Children : 

1 Adeline, b. 1826 

2 Augustus Choate, b. 1829 

3 Julia, b. 1832 

II. Adeline m. George Stetson of Bangor. 

1 George Hamlin, b. 1846 

2 Edward, b. 1854 

3 Isaiah Kidder, b. 1858 

4 Mary Adeline, b. 1860 

II. Augustus Choate m. Helen Cutting of Bangor. 

1 Helen Agnes, b. 1861, d. 1902 

2 Fred Cutting, b. 1873, d. 1891 

II. Julia m. Samuel Rawson Carter of Paris Hill. 

1 Jarves Livermore 

III. George Hamlin Stetson m. Nettie Boynton. 

1 Nellie, b. 1873, d. 1908 

2 George, b. 1874 

3 Eugene, b. 1881 



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III. Edward Stetson m. Edith Lobdell. 
1 Clarence Cutting, b. 1884 

III. Isaiah Kidder Stetson m. Clara Cooper Sawyer. 

1 Ruth Wolcott, b. 1884 

2 Irving Gay, b. 1885 

3 Roger Hamlin, b. 1889, d. 1892 

III. Mary Adeline Stetson m. Thomas Fenton Taylor of New York. 

1 Margaret Hamlin, b. 1884 

2 George Stetson, b. 1885 

3 Fenton, b. 1887 

III. Helen Hamlin m. Edward Hamlin of Boston. 

1 Elinor Cutting Hamlin 

IV. Jarves Livermore Carter m. Mary B. Carter. 

1 Julia, b. 1884 

2 Dorothea, b 1887 

3 Jarves, b. 1889, d. 1893 

V. Nellie Stetson m. Storer Thaxter. 

1 Elizabeth, b. 1899 

2 Edith, b. 1904 

VI. George Stetson m. Edith Young. 

1 George, b. 1898 



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